ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,284, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment authentication and authorization procedure for edge data network" was invented by Shu Guo (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Huarui Liang (Beijing), Mona Agnel (Guildford, Great Britain), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany), Xiangying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) may attempt to access an edge data network. The UE generates a first credential based on a second credential, the second cr...